bumper
pronunciation
How to pronounce bumper in British English:
UK [ˈbʌmpə(r)]
How to pronounce bumper in American English:
US [ˈbʌmpər]
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- Noun:
- a glass filled to the brim (especially as a toast)
- a mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle to absorb shock and prevent serious damage
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- Adjective:
- extraordinarily abundant
Word Origin
- bumper (n.)
- 1670s, "glass filled to the brim;" perhaps from notion of bumping as "large," or from a related sense of "booming" (see bump (v.)). Meaning "anything unusually large" is from 1759, slang. Agent-noun meaning "buffer of a car" is from 1839, American English, originally in reference to railway cars; 1901 of automobiles (in phrase bumper-to-bumper, in reference to a hypothetical situation; of actual traffic jams by 1908).
Example
- 1. In this step we 'll create the bumper .
- 2. Which other technology brand do you ever see on bumper stickers ?
- 3. Using the burn tool , brush over the lower side of the bumper .
- 4. Steve jobs does not use a bumper on his iphone 4 .
- 5. A friend spots a bumper sticker on sale in australia : I refuse to get old .